Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences - State College, PA, USA

Speechify•State College, PA

2d•Remote

About The Position

Speechify is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Core Experiences Team. This team is responsible for building and maintaining the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across all platforms. The role is critical for individuals who thrive at the intersection of product and infrastructure, possess strategic thinking abilities, and are passionate about creating clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience. The ideal candidate will contribute to optimizing existing functionality for improved performance, such as faster loading and more intelligent parsing, by designing efficient abstractions and enhancing algorithms. They will also ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin.

Requirements

Systems thinking: Ability to understand that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design and a belief in the value of simplicity.
Speed: Ability to work quickly to generate ideas and options, and to decide which things can ship now and what needs more time.
Focus: Ability to engage or be heads down in a busy, remote startup environment.
Collaboration: Ability to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs.
Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform)

Nice To Haves

Prior experience with GCP is a plus.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Speechify’s Product Teams to scope projects.
Find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers.
Navigate the integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams.
Deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK.
Optimize existing functionality to ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving our algorithms.
Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin.